Coming in first to the 10 million sold mark for current generation game consoles is the Xbox 360, beating the PS3’s 4.1 million and the Wii’s 8.8 million.

The PS3’s high price tag is likely to blame for its third place showing, and the Wii would likely have sold more if they were ever in stock. But that won’t keep Microsoft from gloating at the annual Console Makers Memorial Day BBQ and Touch Football Game next weekend, you can count on that.

I’m likely never going to get married. Not that I couldn’t, indeed I do OK for myself, but because I’m not an idiot. Sure, for some of you it works out, but I’m not the type.

If I were, I’d do like this couple from the UK: They did it all Star Wars style. Themselves and the rest of the wedding party dressed up as characters from the film, and it looks like it was probably a lot of fun. They’d even planned on getting married a couple of weeks ago, so that their invites would read “May the 4th be with you.” How nerdy rad is that?

Good luck to Bramwell Brightey and his new bride Tamsyn.

Oh, hello there. I’m patiently waiting for the new Boylston Street Apple Store to open here in Boston. Did I need to show up four hours early? Probably not, but I just can’t resist sitting in an outdoor food court while pigeons buzz within inches of my fragile body. Seems nobody told them about the food chain and how humans are atop said food chain. Anyhoo, you might be interested to know that the line for the grand opening of the Apple Store stretches a country mile! Four city blocks to be precise.

A few randomly snapped photos after the jump.

Here’s the view from the end of the line at Commonwealth Avenue. This photo was taken at about 3:00, roughly three hours before the doors open. See the people way down the line there? They’re there, trust me. The line’s filled out a bit more, too. I’ll grab another photo as we get closer to game time to see if Apple’s got the mojo to fill out all four blocks. I’m guessing it’ll fill up. We’ll see, though.

Here’s the front of the line. I overheard the guy who’s at the head of it all say that he’s been here since yesterday. Good for you, my main man.

Here’s the front of the store. The line starts to the right. The gigantic security guard standing there has been surprisingly nice and helpful so far. I watched for a while as clueless passers-by tried to just walk right into the store. Two college kids laughed when he wouldn’t let them in and showed them the line. “You guys will be open tomorrow, right?” they bellowed. Ah, to be in college again.

I present to you the front of the Apple Store — the “facade” as it were. The store is three stories high; computers and laptops on the first floor, ipods and other gadgets on the second floor, and the Genius Bar on the third floor. It’s the biggest Apple Store in the US. Take that, former biggest Apple Store! God dammit, I’m pretty sure a pigeon just touched my ear with its wing. Sick.

And finally, here’s the Apple Store from afar. The roof has grass on it, I’m told. The kind you mow, not the kind you smoke.

So that’s it for now. I’ll be inside in a couple hours. If you’d like me to look for anything in particular or if you have any questions, let me know and I’ll try to find out for you.

I love bus-powered devices, especially external hard drives, but they tend to have fairly small capacities. I do like, those, these new Other World Computing Mercury On-The-Go portable drives.

They’re compact, bus-powered, work with Firewire 400 or USB 2, and even look cool. What’s really great is they’re high-capacity and fairly affordable, topping out with a 200GB drive for $189.99. If you have a laptop with limited capacity and need to expand, these are a great way to go.

We received this internal memo to AT&T employees describing a failed launch today of AT&T’s WiFi service. From the memo:

“The iPhone Wi-Fi offer that was scheduled to launch today has been canceled. Nothing has been announced by the company to our customers and will not impact existing customers. Additional communication will be provided if the status the project changes.”

This appears to be the same service we spotted at Starbucks ten days ago. This could be a move to make pre-3G iPhone users feel less left out in the bandwidth department, but also let’s hope they have a strong upgrade path for existing users.

Read our full AT&T Wi-Fi coverage here.

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The Guardian speculates that Sony could be losing as much as $260 per PS3 sold, significantly higher than the $130 per PS3 to which Sony recently admitted. Care? Maybe you should.

If Sony continues to lose that much per system sold—either $130 or $260 or some other out-of-thin-air estimate—what are the odds that it’ll lower the price?

Right now, the cheapest PS3, the 40GB SKU, costs $400. Should the above numbers hold, you’re probably looking at that $400 price tag for still some time.

Again, this is all wild, “let me crunch the numbers because I have an hour to kill before I leave the office” speculation, so tread lightly.

With Samsung’s recent announcement about F400 availability, I’m guessing you guys might want some more F400 visual goodness. There aren’t many photos of the device floating around besides the standard promo images, but as I take way, way too many photos every time I go to a show, I happened to have a few.

Click the shots below for bigger versions.

While I remain an Apple TV fan, this set-top dock is pretty neat. It’s a dock that basically acts as a video out for the included 2.5-inch portable hard drive that’s full of all of your porn. Neat!

It works with all the most popular video formats, including DivX, so you can download from BitTorrent right to the device and plug it right into your HDTV. We like it.

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A European Union official has warned Google to play nice with EU privacy laws if and when it launches a European version of Google Maps Street View. The service, which provides street-level photos of certain areas, has generated concern among privacy advocates and home owners. In response, Google will now automatically blur faces of people present in Street View photos.

As it relates to the EU, Google will need to respect the union’s myriad privacy laws or face court cases that will ultimately decide the service’s “success or failure.”

Of course, Google, for its part, said it has every intention of complying with the laws.

Regulation makes the world go ’round.

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It’s safe to say we’re approaching the top of the technology tree when it comes to mice and keyboards. As apps get richer and interactive devices become more intuitive and ubiquitous, the mouse/keyboard combo is becoming more and more a niche control scheme. It’s like upgrading your zerglings: you can do it as much as you want, but times change and a couple Wraiths can take out the whole lot. Maybe it’s not like that.

Anyway, Gates sees this and suggests that things like the Touchwall (above) are the future of interfaces, and although he has been a proponent of including real support for alternative inputs in things like Windows 7, there’s nothing solid yet.

Of course, the ideas are not new, but Gates and Microsoft have a habit of taking these things to the mainstream, rather by force than anything else.